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Creating a new architecture: Ödön Lechner in Hungary

From the May 2015 issue of Apollo: preview and subscribe here  European architects of the fin de siècle often looked back to national traditions of building as they sought to forge novel styles. But the Hungarian Ödön Lechner looked further afield, finding inspiration in the Indo-Saracenic buildings of British India The Museum of Applied Arts in Budapest was completed in 1896. It is claimed to be…

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